The Annual Authors’ Luncheon is a literary event that brings together local authors who share their craft and insights about their creative process. The luncheon is a major fundraiser for the Zonta Foothills Foundation, the proceeds from which benefit local and international service agencies that advance the status of women. Zonta Foothills Foundation supports efforts to prevent violence against women, and improve the economic opportunities, education and health of women in Colorado and around the world. Because Zonta volunteers support the entire effort, there are no administrative costs, thus maximizing the funds raised for charitable programs.
The Fifth Annual Authors' Luncheon was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. Speakers included our master of ceremonies, Clay Evans, freelance author and contributor to the Boulder Camera, Vanessa Frambes, 2008-09 and 2009-10 Bev Hackbart Scholarship recipient, and authors, Carrie Host, Doug Brown and Laura Pritchett. Thank you to all of our sponsors, donors, volunteers and guests to make our Luncheon a fabulous success!
Our sincere thanks and gratitude to each of our generous donors:
| Applebee's |
| Dick's Sporting Goods/Bolder Boulder |
| Millennium Harvest House Tennis |
| Avanti Skin Center of Boulder |
| Ellie's Eco Home Store |
| John Montoya, DDS |
| Bailey's Wine & Spirits |
| Carolanne Evans |
| Murphy's Grill |
| Baker Street Pub |
| Ryan Farina Yoga |
| Murphy's South |
| Balsam Chiropractic |
| Flatirons Subaru |
| Mystic Garden Spa and Salon |
| Big Red F Restaurant Group |
| Front Range Anglers |
| Nancy Taylor Farel & Associates |
| Body Span |
| Grandrabbits |
| Nite Ize Inc. |
| Boulder Community Hospital |
| GreatHarvest Bread |
| North Boulder Liquor |
| Boulder Creek Winery |
| Jazzercize of Longmont |
| Omni Interlocken Resort |
| Boulder Cork Restaurant |
| Holcombe Photography |
| Original Pancake House |
| The Bradley Boulder Inn |
| Ida Lindsay China Company |
| Page Two |
| Cafe Blue |
| Islands Burgers |
| Pettyjohn's Liquor and Wine |
| Carrabba's Italian Grill |
| Karen Hunt's Healing Touch |
| Karen Poulson |
| Centennial Wine & Spirits |
| King Soopers, 30th Street |
| Rosewood Dental Group |
| The Cheesemonger's Shop |
| King Soopers, Lookout Road |
| Sadhana West Yoga Studio |
| The Color Room |
| Lakeshore Athletic Club |
| Studio Boom |
| Costco |
| Lake Valley Golf Club |
| Sunflower Market |
| Creme De La Creme |
| Lesson Studio |
| Superior Liquors |
| Culinary School of the Rockies |
| Lucy Tuck Photography |
| Beth Talucci |
| Denver Broncos |
| Maruca Design |
| Bobbi Vischi |
| Denver Center for the Performing Arts |
| McGukin Hardware |
| Whole Foods |
| Denver Nuggets/Kroenke Sports Charities |
| Millennium Harvest House |
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OUR FEATURED AUTHORS
Douglas Brown has been on the national media circuit with his book Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days which focuses on how he and his wife strengthened their relationship. He is currently in discussions with Twentieth Century Fox to make the book into a movie. For the past six years Mr. Brown has worked as a feature writer for The Denver Post and other newspapers and magazines including The Albuquerque Tribune, The Washington Post and Draft Magazine (a magazine for the beer industry).
He was born in New York and grew up in Philadelphia. He is married to Annie, has two young daughters, Stella and Ruby, and a mutt named Bruno. He lives in Boulder.
Carrie Host, author of Between Me and the River, serves on the board of directors for the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation, which is the only not-for-profit foundation dedicated to discovering a cure for carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumors. An accomplished public speaker, Ms Host addresses cancer patients and the medical community at CFCF and other cancer related fundraising events across the country with her message of insight and understanding to survivors of cancer, caregivers, family and friends. A third-generation Colorado native and cancer survivor, she lives in Boulder with her husband and their three children: Chanel (19), Marco (17) and William (6).
Laura Pritchett is the author/editor of five books. Her fiction includes the novel Sky Bridge, which won the WILLA Fiction Award; and the short story collection Hell's Bottom, Colorado, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the PEN USA Award.
She is also the editor/co-editor of three anthologies: The Pulse of the River, Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works, and Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers and Dumpster Divers. Ms Pritchett has also published over fifty essays and short stories in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, High Desert Journal, Natural Resources Journal, Matter Journal, Colorado Review, 5280 and others; and in the books Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home and Social Issues Firsthand: The Environment. She also serves as contributing editor to 5280: Denver's Magazine and The Normal School Journal.
Ms Pritchett is currently finishing three books: a new novel entitled Blue Moon Mountain, a memoir called Crack the Egg and an anthology about sex and nature.
Ms Pritchett is a faculty member at Denver's Lighthouse Writers Workshop, teaches around the country and works as a writing coach. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Purdue University. She lives in northern Colorado, near the ranch where she was raised.
